Tell EU Commission and the European Parliament - it is their fault and they must take responsibility, since they do nothing to change the treaties and help this excluded group of animals!

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April 1 - Another call from Romania - try to help influence!!!

****URGENT URGENT URGENT**** I have just been told yet another 50 dogs were killed in Craiova public shelter last night!!!!!!!!!! Unless we create an international public outcry, they are not going to do anything to stop this!!!!!! Please I beg you all to take 2 minutes to send an the following letter by email to your embassies!!!!!!!

The latest money making machine in Romania is exporting dogs for medical experiments and vivisections in Western Europe, specifically Germany, Belgium and Denmark. NGOs should be taking care of the dogs, not selling them. Sign

A 25-year-old man from Manastirea, Cluj County, Romania, managed to save the life of a dog trapped in the river and who couldn't get out because of the dam. We think our savior deserves to be handed the honorary citizenship title! Sign the Petition!

After the recent tragic incident in Bucharest, FOUR PAWS renewed the protest: "We call on the Romania Prime Minister Victor Ponta to quash the law which allows the mass killing of stray dogs." Please sign and share, lets fill up his mail box!!!

On 21st March 2014 NINETY dogs were dragged from a safe rescue in Bragiduru Romania. These dogs were all vaccinated, tagged and some were still under anaesthetic from having neutering surgery that very day. Some of the anaethetised dogs died. Others were dragged bleeding into a number of vans. The volunteers who had cared for the animals could do nothing but film the event. Most of these dogs had allocated homes in the UK but this made no difference to the men who came to 'dog-catch' and treat these innocent animals with such contempt.

This wicked people are not human beings! I'm sure they will be punish with Karma's justice, but how to stop them now... ASPA is currently under investigation by the Romanian National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA). All actions taken!

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UPDATE from FOUR PAWS ROMANIA, 22.03.2014

"Our colleagues went today at the clinic in ADP, 6th District Court to recover assets belonging to FOUR PAWS, including the paddock vandalized yesterday by the city hall catchers. Access was denied by the employees of the security company contracted by the city hall of 6th District. According to the latest information, the intervention of yesterday was carried out with the agreement of the City Hall, 6th District. We mention that FOUR PAWS has a Protocol in force signed with the 6th District city hall for FREE sterilization of stray dogs, the city being the one that's made available the clinic in the ADP 6 courtyard. During the two years of the project, the team of FOUR PAWS has neutered over 3,000 dogs with donation funds, with equipment and resources of the Foundation. We are protesting against this inexplicable attitude of a city hall that fully benefited from the efforts of FOUR PAWS!"

UPDATE from Ioana, 2 hours ago

"The last time I saw my babies.... We were taking the cages we built with our money to place them to their new homes and they were looking at us not understanding what is going on... MY POOR BABIES! I AM DEVASTATED! GOD HELP ME FIND THEM ALIVE MONDAY MORNING!

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EMERGENCY!!!! Sorry to tell everybody that dog catchers have BRUTALLY and possibly ILLEGALLY broken into Vier Pfoten shelter in Bucharest and taken 90 dogs!! They have killed some dogs, other have been badly injured in the scramble, dragged to dog catchers’ cars bleeding and screaming. They have taken dogs that were under treatment in clinic and all the others too, shielded by local police. They have taken them to a public shelter outside of Bucharest and not allowing anybody access until Monday. At this point, we can’t find out any info about the dogs, how many are dead and injured. Our friend Mia Petroschke has filmed everything and has also been injured (not life-threatening)."

Watch the shocking images of the brutal methods of the city hall catchers during the abusive action from yesterday, 21.03.2014: dogs covered with blogd, dragged with clubs, then thrown in cages all in a huddle.

We remind you that the catchers vandalized a shelter and FOUR PAWS paddocks during an ILLEGAL action ordered by the municipal dog management authority, with the help of the local police.

All 90 dogs, including the 15 dogs of FOUR PAWS were neutered, microchipped and registered. Most of them were already adopted and set to be transported to their new owners.

"2000 people only in Bucharest, thousands of people all over Romania, more than 100.000 people all over the world protested against romanian dogs killers. This was an unique protest who simultaneous took place all over the world. We all asked to stop killing stray dogs and to start acting like a civilized country. Thank you all for your help! We love you!"

We saved today from public shelter Bragadiru these dogs and we will go again next week to save others. We went looking for other dogs that were taken by the dog catchers but we got a few others that were in poor condition. I saw with deep sadness that people who came to search for their own dog taken by the dog catchers, came and took only his own dog and turned their eyes not wanting to see or save another, at least one...

The AGRI Committee is expected to consider the motion for resolution at its meeting of 17/18 March. Brian supports the need for greater clarity on animal welfare issues surrounding stray animal management and hopes that the Committee will give the motion for resolution due consideration.

c) please add the email address of the European Communications Team as CC so that we will receive a copy of their response. Our email address is: europeancommunicationsteam@europe.com

Thank you very much, in advance, for your precious support!

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SAMPLE LETTER:

Dear member of the European Parliament,

I refer to the legal letter dated 23 January 2014 (which you can read and download at the following link: http://europeancommunicationsteam.weebly.com/the-letter-to-the-commission.html). The letter proposes, from a legal perspective, a solution to the situation of Romanian homeless dogs. The letter clearly demonstrates that the Commission has the legal competence – and a legal duty - to intervene in the issue without any further delay.

By way of follow-up action, you are kindly requested to pose a set of written questions to the Commission as follows:

1. Does the Commission agree that it has legal competence to intervene in the issue of Romanian dogs based on EU legislation on Public Health? (If not, why not?)

2. Does Romania’s Rabies Eradication Program mention dog population control among the measures to be carried out?

3. Does the Commission agree that Romania’s Rabies Eradication Program should urgently be clarified by way of an explicit condition as follows: Romania must implement long-term measures at the national level for the management of the dog population in accordance with international best practice? In other words, the current “Catch & Kill” policy should be replaced by more efficient and humane measures. (If not, why not?)

4. Does the Commission continue to exclude the possibility that EU funds are, directly or indirectly, being used to finance the multi-million euro “Catch & Kill” dog management business in Romania via local administration budgets? (If so, on what grounds?)

A short summary of the issue can be found here: http://youtu.be/uty8DrazxDI

I wish to cordially thank you, in advance, for all your efforts in finding a legal solution to the cruelties ongoing in Romania.

All dogs from this video were filmed during a trip in Romania. Many dogs are abandoned on the road, in the middle of nowhere, suffering from hunger and thirst. ROMANIA, DO NOT PUNISH YOUR DOGS FOR YOUR FAILURE, BUT TEACH YOUR PEOPLE HOW TO TREAT ANIMALS!

Today I received this video. Showing the Bragadiru complex and some insights about how they treat stray dogs. Its not clear if this dog is on his last way to be euthanized in whatever way. But it is a good evidence about the general behaviour of the keepers in Bragadiru.

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Thank you Monika for always being here for the animals. Thank you all for signing petitions. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

According to license plate of the car, the owner is from Prahova County, Romania. We are appalled at the way this owner treats the horse. We ask Prahova County Police to track down this individual and prosecute him / her for neglecting this poor horse!

I do all that was possible to sign and email sent!!!! Thanks a lot for the great job to Monika, Desanka and to all the people that are here to try to help all this poor creatures, kudos and butterfly to all of you!!! Grazie, ciao!

The Vice-Chairman of the AGRI Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Animal Welfare Intergroup, MEP Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI (ECR) together with the Vice-Chairman of the Animal Welfare Intergroup MEP Andrea ZANONI (ALDE) will be hosting a press conference on Wednesday 12th February in relation to their recent visit to Romania. MEPs will be addressing concerns regarding the situation of stray dogs in light of the recently adopted Stray Dogs Euthanasia Law by the Parliament of Romania aimed at culling the stray population. MEPs will present their reflections and conclusions and put forward plans, recommendations and possible initiatives in search of a solution on how to address the issue. More information will be presented at the press conference.

As you know, on December 4, 2013 a delegation of the European Parliament came to Romania and had some meetings with Romanian officials ANSVSA- Sanitary-Veterinary and Food Safety National Authority and the Mayor of Bucharest. The delegation members were assured that the law on dog management is a law on "adoption, not on "euthanasia" and the citizens had access to public shelters which were totally transparent and complying with the law

On January 28, the delegation returned to Romania in order to inform themselves on the situation directly on site by visiting as well dog shelters of the city halls.

The Delegation found that there was a major discrepancy between what the authorities had told them during their first visit and what they found on site during their second visit.

The Delegation has also received from us 12 reports about the situation from different towns in Romania and proves with regards at the abuses against stray dogs in the municipalities' camps.

With regards at the SITUATION OF THE STRAY DOGS IN ROMANIA, MEP JanuszWOJCIECHOWSKI, Vice-Chairman of the AGRI Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Animal Welfare Intergroup and MEP Andrea ZANONI, Vice-Chairman of the Animal Welfare Intergroup, will be hosting aPRESS CONFERENCE on Wednesday 12th February, 15:30, at Brussels, at European Parliament, Raoul Wallenberg Room - ASP5G2.

MEPs will present their reflections and conclusions and put forward plans, recommendations and possible initiatives in search of a solution on how to address the issue.

One supporter of IREC Group (Initiative for Civic responsibility) in Romania makes LISTS with animal rights activists and rescuers, mostly Romanians who live in Romania, and they STARTED NOW A "WITCH HUNT" REPORTING THEM TO FB. These individuals want to DEPRIVE people of their UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS - because they criticize IREC and the ANTI STRAY DOGS individuals, who instigate on their profiles to HATRED not only towards the dogs but against other human beings. Read more at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Romania-The-land-of-Death-for-animals/204542339556844

Mark Kobal received a letter from IREC the organization that promote killing stray dogs in the name of a negligent family who permitted their 2 children to enter on a PRIVATE PROPERTY where it is supposed that one of them was attacked by the dogs who protected that property. This IREC sustain that the child was attacked by stray dogs, although they were on a private property and STARTED A CAMPAIGN TRYING TO ATTACK PEOPLE WHO MILITATE FOR ANIMALS RIGHTS IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY, AND AGAINST PEOPLE WHO ASK JUSTICE TO PUNISH THOSE PARENTS WHO DIDN'T TAKE CARE OF THEIR CHILDREN.

MIRCEA SOLCANU before spoke against irresponsible journalists who distorted the truth how little Ionut Anghel was killed. In this case, Mircea Solcanu's life was threatened due to the action of IREC and it seems that he will be fired for looking for truth.

The European Communication Team has sent a very well written letter to the EU commission, pointing out that they are indeed obliged to intervene with regards to the highly controversial and certainly cruel and unnecessary stray dog killings in Romania. WILD TIME spoke to Robert Smith (spokesperson of the European Communications Team and expert in stray animal population management in less developed European countries) about the letter and the campaign.

It is hard to believe that Romania has not yet reached its threshold of "SHAME" despite a total of about 20,000 pledges and 2,143,782 petition signatures, reached up to the 30th of January, 2014, regarding the plight of stray dogs and cats in the country.

Last months, OIPA launched an action alert to protest against the reintroduction of the stray-kill law in Romania, involving also Italian mayors twinned with Romanian towns in cooperation with Save The Dogs. Further, OIPA focused on the countless poisonings and killings of strays in the city of Ploiesti, showing footage of the murders and launching an action alert against the local authorities too.

Simultaneously, OIPA donated 1,000 euros to a Romanian OIPA member league named Romanian Stray Dogs Ploiesti (RSDP). This grant was for the activities of the organization for homeless dogs, mainly sterilizations.

We are OUTRAGED to find out that the newly chosen veterinarianto EXTERMINATE the dogs Emil Paraschiv...has STARTED the KILLING of stray dogs LONG before ALL the requirements of the Law 258/2013 have been FULLY implemented.

Romania and Bulgaria are aiming to obtain permission from the European Commission to resume exports of live pigs to other EU member states in January 2015. Currently, the two countries are not allowed to export live pigs, due to restrictions imposed by Brussels in 2003, and can only export processed pork products...

UPDATE: HARSOVA, ROMANIA: STOP CRAMMING DOGS IN CAGES AND ABANDONING THEM AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY!

Terrible photo is circulating on Facebook. It's supposed to be taken in Harsova killing pound, Romania. Our local staff SAVE THE DOGS is trying to gather information to take action as soon as possible about this unacceptable situation. We will keep you updated. Those who have relevant information are kindly requested to contact us: info@savethedogs.eu

Arad train station, Romania: A kangaroo suddenly starts to hop around. After a couple of minutes, he falls between the railways and dies. Police and vets arrive to late. The owner of the kangaroo must be prosecuted for his irresponsible actions!

Dogs are crammed in tiny cages and abandoned at the outskirts of the city, near the city's trash disposal site. In the one square foot cage, 20 dogs can barely breathe. Authorities swear they have nothing to do with it, but we know this is not true!!

-What do you think should be done with Stray dogs in Bucharest? 1. Move to a shelter 2. Euthanasia (kill them) 3. Leave them alone4. Give them professional care, followed by an adoption campaign 5. Not interested Don't forget to fill in the security code at the end!

Signed. I also copied the petition information and emailed it the two of my MEPs who are actually supportive of animal welfare. We must keep badgering the EU - they can change the legislation if they choose to.

"NEWLY relaxed immigration rules may have led to fears of an influx of Romanian workers, but dog shelters across Scotland have already seen a surge in canine refugees from the Eastern European country." '

President Traian Basecu of Romania has today 25/09/2013 passed a law stating it is now legal to murder all dogs (and many cats) in Romania !!! This is completely unacceptable and the civilised World is horrified . The EU has given millions of Euros.

Romania never ceases to amaze me. They are killing dogs everywhere in their mistaken belief that they are dealing with a problem, then they remove two dogs who have a place to be. Why can't they just leave her and her dogs alone.

Mayor of Bucharest, ASPA, ANSVSA, Romania : Return the two dogs to the homeless woman in Dorobanti-Bucharest. Romanian authorities allow homeless people to have companion animals, like in all civilized countries in the world.

Monika and Leslene - I agree with you both. What also makes my blood boil is that this country is a Member State of the European Union and therefore the European Parliament has it in their power to change the legislation. Animal welfare in the EU is an absolute shambles.

I will say this now once - WTF is wrong with this filthy nation of sub humans - dear God, the world needs to target this despicable filthy species of sub humans and beat them to a bloody pulp. I despise them, I would spit on them if I saw them lying in the gutter, in fact I would help them to their graves by kicking them to death. The bastard rubbishes - I am sick to death of them. Where are the organisations in other countries around the world - why are they not helping - we cannot fight this alone!!!! They are lower than sub human, they are evil personified, straight from the pits of hell. May God show them no mercy when they stand before Him and may hell be their place for eternity!

Romanian vet beaten in her car and in the parking lot, in front of her child, because she gave food to some stray dogs and many other people.

Currently some municipalities pay 50 Euros or more for the capturing of one dog. There is the budget of millions of Euro created for dog mafia (the average monthly income in Romania is around 350 euro).

This is exactly why the legislation must change and why we MUST ceaselessly lobby our MEPs. This answer is the old excuse they wheel out every time an issue of animal welfare comes up. They have tied their own bloody hands and they therefore have the blood of millions of dogs on their hands.

The European Commission received many complaints about the welfare and management of stray dogs in Romania. These have been registered under reference CHAP(2013)3076. In order to respond swiftly and inform those concerned, the Commission published this reply in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Besides the fact that numerous trees will be cut to make room for the shopping center, the IOR park is home to one of the largest hedgehog populations in Europe, which will see its habitat destroyed once the construction is started! Let's save them!!

EU Country Romania are abusing and killing animals. The way the dogs are being killed is illegal! It has to be exposed and stopped! The cruelty these dogs are suffering is against the law! Puppies dogs, held down screaming, while men, who are not vets!

Pigs are burned or skinned alive every year, on December 20th, all in the name of religious purification. European Commission has enforced new guidelines, but no one in Romania cares about them. Stricter laws must be enforced to prevent further killings!!

We, citizens of the entire world, signatories of this petition, OUTRAGED by the way Police treats the Romanian people and by the mass killings of animals, and the intention to EXTERMINATE the stray dogs, we would like to let all Romanian authorities.

Vatra Dornei is a popular tourist attraction in Romania but is has a serious problem dealing with stray dogs. This week, unknown people alongside police started a brutal campaign of shooting stray dogs, right in the middle of the resort. Please help!

Local authorities want to eliminate all remaining stray dogs from the street by killing them. No nurture scheme has been adopted and no animal shelters were recently built! Mass murder is inhumane and is NOT an option! Sign and Share widely!!

Confronted with mass protests from animal lovers, the two countries have built a crematorium on the Snake Island, in the Black Sea, where hundreds of dogs are deported every day. The ashes are later thrown in the sea, thus the evidence is destroyed.

Tens of thousands of innocent dogs are about to be slaughtered in Romania. Instead of spaying and neutering these stray dogs, they will be killed outright. The killings will begin soon so we must act fast.

The annual hunting games hosted by billionaire Ion Tiriac are due to start soon. Wil boards, dears and other endangered animals are brought in and killed just for the fun. We need 1.500 signatures to put pressure on Tiriac! Our time is limited! Sign NOW!!

Animals must be protected! Roads in Romania are filled of small, cute animals, such as dogs or cats which do not deserve to be THROWN OUT by their owners. We are sick and tired of seeing puppies which struggle to survive out in the wild!

The only way to prevent further animal cruelty in this miserable country is to install cameras at the shelters. Consequently, every citizen can get access to the webcam and observe how the animals are doing!

Pitesti was one of the few cities in Romania where dogs stopped being killed 13 years ago. Now the Municipality Pitesti is preparing mass killing of dogs neutered and returned by AULIM. PLEASE, HELP US TO STOP ANY INITIATIVE OF KILLING!

Romanian Police, Cluj County Police, Attorney General of Romania, European Commission for Justice and Human Rights, Prefect of Cluj County, MAI, Ministry of Justice: Fire Nicolae Rusu from the Romanian Police Forces and punish him at the FULL extend